toastmeister

In the most bureaucratic industry in Canada with the highest taxes?

If this is your idea of capitalism I'd say its a bit silly, people can't just build a 12 story apartment to service the demand, nimbys had it shut it down since the 1920s when they were redlining and not much has changed.

Its actually gotten far worse, there used to be loopholes like the Vancouver special, which were closed in the early 90s. Environmental and parking requirements were also much less.

Even provinces that did rezone very recently like BC are still littered with bureaucracy. This rezoning also should have been done a decade before we did 4% annual population growth, a logical order of operations that doesn't destroy the poor.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DX_-UcC14xw

Canadian oil with its higher margins and only 10% tariff would easily survive these tariffs, as the currency FX falls they'd be made even cheaper and gain even more investment, while the areas that manufacture cars and who voted Liberal would be hurt the most. You'd think it would be the other way around.

Though I guess the attempt at nationalizing oil revenue in the 80s and the inability to build pipelines in Canada, so that they didn't have to sell energy at a deep discount, has long sullied Canada for many Albertans. This may have been a subconscious thought for a long time.

If you want systemic change to the economic system there's definitely an order of operations here to follow, wouldn't you agree?

If I want to redesign a roller coaster my first step shouldn't be to start removing the tracks while passengers are on it.

I agree. High demand from immigration; lack of supply due to greenbelt, slow permitting, property taxes being passed on as development taxes, and urban sprawl zoning.

Why nationalize only oil, why not manufacturing, mining, lumber, hydro, etc..?

I have a birth bath I don't ever replace the water in. Its like a shrub to me.

Alberta has no alternatives to export so loses a lot by shipping to the US. Alberta has a huge amount to gain by having alternative shipping routes. I think they'd be happy with things and the media would change their opinion pretty quickly.

Its concluding that if Alberta leaves Quebec will be screwed, so its in Quebecs interest to allow a pipeline to prevent secession. The tariffs on manufacturing emboldens this with an even larger crisis. The long term plan would be to end the reliance on Russian energy, assuming its true, but it seems to be unfolding as predicted so far which is neat.

Heres who was predicting it, starting about 28 minutes in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHNWDawcQo

What if I'm against immigration due to a housing bubble that is destroying the poor and dramatically increasing price to income ratios, am I a racist or a saint?

I think anyone with a brain can see that in many countries mass immigration is being used to depress wages and invert the phillips curve after QE, or to prop up GDP to avoid a technical recession in favor of a per-capita recession, which is for some reason not defined or acknowledged. It also clearly hurts the poor and benefits the rich via asset price inflation and higher rental income.

The reason Trumps idea appeals to people for those unaware is that free trade destroyed a lot of union jobs, which were outsourced to emerging markets. After the industrial revolution unions fought for worker rights and salaries, and they were then shipped away to places that didnt have those rights, and they want to see a reversal of this.

Not sure if its right or wrong, but you cant fault them for holding out hope, its actually a left wing ideal I would say, large government protectionism interfering in the free market. Saying that all factory jobs are bad is a silly retort, there are many factory jobs in the US already that people are happy to have; even ASML making advanced semiconductor fabs is a "factory job".